Our Ingredients
While it’s important to stay healthy during your pregnancy, it can be difficult to get adequate nutrition through good diet alone. That’s why prenatal vitamins are recommended both when you are trying to conceive and during pregnancy12. The PreferaOB® family of products contains a number vitamins and minerals essential for mom and baby’s health during pregnancy. Some of the most important ingredients in PreferaOB® include our unique dual iron combination, 1mg of Folic Acid, 50mg of Vitamin B6, and 200mg of life’sDHA™ (found in PreferaOB+DHA™ and PreferaOB ONE™). To learn more about these ingredients, please click on the links below.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION:
CONTRAINDICATIONS: This product is contraindicated in patients with a known hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients.
WARNING: Ingestion of more than 3 grams of Omega-3 fatty acids per day has been shown to have potential antithrombotic effects, including an increased bleeding time and International Normalized Ratio (INR). Administration of Omega-3 fatty acids should be avoided in patients taking anticoagulants and in those known to have an inherited or acquired predisposition to bleeding diathesis.
WARNING: Accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6. Keep this product out of reach of children. In case of accidental overdose, call a doctor or poison control center immediately.
PRECAUTIONS: Folic acid when administered as a single agent in doses above 0.1mg daily may obscure pernicious anemia in that hematological remission can occur while neurological manifestations remain progressive. Pregnant women and nursing mothers should avoid supplemental doses of vitamin E higher than RDA amounts. While prescribing this nutritional supplement for pregnant women, nursing mothers, or for women prior to conception, their medical condition and other drugs, herbs, and/or supplements consumption should be considered.
ADVERSE REACTIONS: Allergic sensitization has been reported following both oral and parenteral administration of folic acid.
